A preface () or proem () is an introduction to a book or other literary work written by the author.
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Book design |
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Page layout and typography |
- Annotation
- Footnote
- Gloss
- Marginal note
- Scholia
- Canons of page construction
- Catchword
- Column
- Footer
- Header
- Headpiece
- Illumination
- Initial
- Margin
- Miniature
- Ornament
- Page numbering
- Pull quote
- Recto and verso
- Rubric
- Rubrication
- Typeface
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Front and back covers | |
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| Endpapers | |
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| Front matter |
- Half-title
- Frontispiece
- Title page
- Edition notice
- Imprimi potest
- Nihil obstat
- Imprimatur
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Table of contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Prologue
- Printer's mark
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| Body matter |
- Body text
- Chapters
- Illustrations
- Parts
- Sections
- Tipped-in pages
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| Back matter | |
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| Other elements |
- Book curse
- Bookplate
- Book rhyme
- Die-cutting
- Endband
- Extra-illustration
- Fore-edge painting
- Intentionally blank page
- Pop-ups
- Slipcase
- Thumb index
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